Template:Short description Template:Use dmy dates Template:Use British English Template:Infobox UK place Aldwincle (sometimes Aldwinkle or Aldwinckle) is a village and civil parish in the North Northamptonshire district, in Northamptonshire, England, with a population at the time of the 2011 census of 322.<ref>Office for National Statistics: Aldwincle CP: Parish headcounts Retrieved 16 July 2015.</ref> It stands by a bend in the River Nene, Template:Convert to the north of Thrapston. The name of the village means "Ealda's nook".<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref>
Historic buildingsEdit
The ecclesiastical parishes of Aldwincle All Saints and Aldwincle St Peter merged in 1879. All Saints was declared redundant in 1971. Being also a designated Grade I listed building,<ref name="hg">Template:NHLE</ref> it is cared for by the Churches Conservation Trust.<ref name="cct">Template:Citation</ref> Also listed Grade I are St Peter's Church, Lyveden New Bield (and gardens), and Lyveden Old Bield.
The small primary school, Aldwincle Trinity, opened in 1976.
The village rectory was the birthplace of the English poet John Dryden,<ref>Template:Cite EB1911</ref> the English historian Thomas Fuller,<ref>Template:Cite EB1911</ref> and the English Civil War figure Charles Fleetwood,<ref>Template:Cite EB1911</ref> as well as the home of poet Mary Rolls.<ref>Template:Cite ODNB</ref>